GRE Word List
PERT
saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured
The meaning of the word pert is saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |